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As temperatures bust heat records across the globe and wildfires rage from California to the Arctic, a new report produced annually by more than 500 scientists worldwide found that last year, the carbon dioxide concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere reached the highest levels "in the modern atmospheric measurement record and in ice core records dating back as far as 800,000 years." https://goo.gl/xWXY59 via @commondreams
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Science Magazine, August 02, 2018
https://scim.ag/2AIsydc
The State of the Climate in 2017,the 28th edition of an annual compilation published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).warns that even if humanity "stopped the greenhouse gases at their current concentrations today, the atmosphere would still continue to warm for next couple decades to maybe a century." The hefty document includes data compiled by 524 scientists working in 65 countries....
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Earth's atmospheric CO2 concentrations reached 405 parts per million last year, a level not seen in 800,000 years: